Example sentences of "almost [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This almost led to grounding of the plane but replacement with an incompatible elastomer made from ethylene-propylene copolymer rectified the fault . |
| 2 | The man stepped back into the centre of the circle , and seemed almost to go to sleep . |
| 3 | In spite of being almost tethered to Marguerite , Jenna enjoyed the trip and was rewarded later by being instructed in the cooking of some of the purchases . |
| 4 | SURPRISE OFFER 'S big-race warm up almost turned to disaster at Brighton yesterday today . |
| 5 | A court heard how the plan almost turned to disaster when , half way across the North Sea , the dinghy began filling with water . |
| 6 | SHORTLY after the Russians invaded , the famous Barrandov Studios , in which so many world-class directors had worked , were to be used for the making of a film called Factory Of Illusions , in which a young and idealistic graduate of the Film Academy arrives to find well-known film-makers of the New Wave drinking and whoring instead of making films , and almost succumbs to counter-revolution himself . |
| 7 | The last step but one creaked protestingly and she grimaced apprehensively , her body almost turning to stone as she waited for Dane to suddenly appear and demand to know what she was doing . |
| 8 | After all , he 's been told what 's going on , she has n't — and is almost driven to suicide by his mysterious silence , ’ she explains . |
| 9 | By the end of last year , when they had three of the children , he had been almost driven to distraction . |
| 10 | Three men almost went to prison as a result . |
| 11 | Yet for all that John was almost lost to tennis — lawn-tennis , that is . |
| 12 | Mrs Oram 's three-year-old son Charles almost choked to death in thick fumes after the £30 Safe and Sound monitor ‘ spontaneously ignited ’ . |
| 13 | It had been almost razed to street level as the fire burnt all the wooden beams and the pews , but the lower hall was intact , water had seeped into the choir robing room and was spoiling the hymn books . |
| 14 | The initials H.P.L. had been hand-lettered on the side , and the ink had almost faded to invisibility . |
| 15 | GUNG HO Captain ‘ Birdseye ’ was heading home from icy seas last night after his crew almost starved to death . |